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World Leaks — a rebrand of the Hunters International ransomware operation — posted 204,000 files allegedly including Apple iPhone quality inspection standards and Tesla manufacturing documents. Tata confirmed the breach but said operations are unaffected.
The Bezos-backed EV startup is betting that most Americans don't want a $60,000 tech-laden truck. Slate's minimalist pickup starts below $25,000, converts to a five-seat SUV, and is designed to be wrapped and modified.
The agreement covers HBM, DRAM, and SSD supply across Micron's data center portfolio and includes a strategic investment in Anthropic's latest funding round — positioning Micron as a key hardware partner for Claude's long-term compute scaling.
Claude Tag moves beyond the on-demand chatbot model: it lives inside Slack channels, monitors conversations proactively, and maintains shared institutional memory for every team member who has access.
Rockstar Games has confirmed Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders go live on June 25, 2026, with the game itself landing exclusively on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on November 19.
Qualcomm is in advanced talks to buy Modular Inc. for roughly $4 billion, adding the startup's Mojo language and MAX inference platform to its expanding AI data center push.
Oracle's fiscal 2026 annual report became the clearest public admission yet that AI is directly reducing enterprise headcount at scale: 13 percent of the company's global workforce, $1.84 billion in severance costs, and an explicit warning that further reductions are coming as internal AI deployment grows.
A class-action complaint filed in federal court accuses six major fuel retailers of using Kalibrate's AI pricing algorithm to collectively inflate California gas prices by up to 22 cents per gallon — the first major test of the state's new AB 325 law banning shared algorithmic pricing.
Meta's new glasses — called simply Meta Glasses — arrive at $299 in three frame styles, made with EssilorLuxottica but without the Ray-Ban name. They pack a camera, speakers, and Meta AI integration, and land one week after Snap's competing Specs at $2,195.
OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity program with a new open-source patching initiative built with Trail of Bits, and fully released GPT-5.5-Cyber — its most capable security AI — alongside a commercial partner program with Cisco, CrowdStrike, and IBM.
The open-weight AI startup, founded by ex-Google DeepMind researchers and valued at $25 billion, will pay SpaceX $150 million per month for GPU access starting July 2026 — adding to SpaceX's rapidly growing roster of external compute customers at its Memphis data center.
The two companies are co-developing Project Kilby, a natural gas-fired power plant in the Permian Basin that will supply electricity to Microsoft's planned $7 billion AI data center complex — the largest energy deal between an oil major and a tech company to date.